“Everyone’s talking about it. It has broken the boundaries of ethics and respect, all in the name of money. This isn’t creativity, it’s the vulgarisation of the sacred and is deeply disrespectful,” said Father Clesio Vieira of Rio de Janeiro’s Volta Redonda diocese.

The controversy has dimmed somewhat, so what better time than now to look at the contestants lining up for Miss Bumbum 2016.